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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Path: news.eunet.fi!nullnet!tna!marcus.alanen
- From: marcus.alanen@tna.nullnet.fi (Marcus Alanen)
- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translat
- Message-ID: <64_5538@tna.nullnet.fi>
- References: <19960307.41C900.103A8@an168.du.pipex.com> <Dny169.BJH@cix.compulink.co.uk> <31451E66.1748@sapiens.com>
- Organization: The New Age BBBS
- Sender: news@tna.nullnet.fi (News Administrator)
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 19:45:50 +0200
-
- > what exactly is the question here?! why NOT moving to a more powerful
- > CPU, god knows the Amiga could use more processing speed, something
- > comparable to the Pentium, we've got quality hardware surrounding the
- > CPU, but the cpu proper is just too slow
-
- And then we have the lousy chip mem. And slow blitter, copper,
- Paula and... and.. What is the new PowerAmiga going to look like?
- Will it contain any special circuits like the aforementioned?
- (Just a quick thought)
-
- > Any programs written in assembler are obviously small in size and can be
- > ported to PPC with great ease or can be emulated on the PPC.
-
- Does anybody know of the PPC command language? Is it a lot
- different than assembler on the Amiga? How hard is it to do a
- Amy-asm-->PPC converter?
-